P.toile Added by kwab, 29 October 2005

Claudia Marquardt aka p.toile is originally from Kiel, Germany. Everything started there in 1993 when she started to mess around at home with a simple mixer, a tape player and a record player. Pretty fast she got herself 2 Technics MKII and a Dj mixer and started to mix at different parties… there she found her passion.
In 1998 she opened a record shop called “Starbeat” located in Kiel, specialized in Hip-Hop and electronic music. One year later she created “Groove Complex” with Kai Hellebrandt, who is now running his own club called “Luna Club” in Kiel, and with her and her partner from the “starbeat” record store. As a collective they brought to Kiel artists like Terranova, LTJ Bukem, Jazzanova, Smith & Mighty, Rockers Hi-Fi, Patrick Pulinger and many more…
That gave her the opportunity to practise playing on stage, opening for people like: Daniel Haksmann (WMF, Berlin), Shantel (!K7, Berlin), Glyn "Bigga" Bush (Lightning Head, England), Frank Martiniq (Boxer-recordings, Cologne), Gilb’r (Versatile, Paris)…


p.toile moved to Paris in 2001 where she started to work for Discograph (record distributor) as an Internet Editor & Coordinator and is doing the booking for the club “Lizard Lounge”. Since May 2003 she is having her own monthly night at the Club “Batofar” in Paris. A club boat on the river “Seine”. She’s also running a booking agency named Clique bookings, taking care of artists like Pan|Tone or Jeff Milligan. Her newest project is the record store “Mange Disque” in Paris, selling the music of her label friends and taking care of the order since Nov 2003. The next step will be the release of an EP on the Label Trenton around spring 2004…